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Title A name given to the resource Armando Rito Portrait Subject The topic of the resource Individual Actors, Technician, Civil Engineer, Armando Rito Description An account of the resource Armando Rito Portrait Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PT BUILDS Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Ordem dos Engenheiros Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available PT BUILDS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-10-17 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ordem dos Engenheiros Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG Language A language of the resource ENG Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context IA38IMG1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Portugal Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Civil Engineer Person An individual. Training Institution Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Birth Date 1936 Occupation Civil Engineer Teacher Biographical Text Armando António Marques Rito was born in 1936. He is a Portuguese engineer, specialized in the construction of bridges. He studied and graduated in Civil Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico. At the same institution, he was assistant professor of Edgar Cardoso, in the chair of Bridges and Special Constructions. He was coordinating professor of ISEL’s (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa) Civil Engineering Bridge Chair. He was also guest professor of that same chair at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He already has an extensive list of public works across the world, a large majority of complex engineering works such as bridges. This is the case of the 1991 Bridge over the Arade River in Portimão, the 1997 César Gaviria Trujillo Viaduct in Colombia, where he was an engineering consultant, the 1997 Miguel Torga Bridge, the 1998 Vasco da Gama Bridge, in Lisbon, the 2007 Vila Pouca de Aguiar Viaduct, on the A24, the 2009 São Vicente Bridge in Guinea-Bissau, the 2009 April 4 Bridge over the Catumbela River in Angola and the 2012 Bridge over the Tua River. In the private sector, he created the company Armando Rito Engenharia in 1982. This same company is specialized, among others, in the construction of bridges. He was a National Expert on the Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN) and was part of the group that wrote the 1st version of the EuroCode of Concrete Bridges. He was also a member of the work group “Bridges” of the Fédération Internationale du Béton (FIB). He is a member of the Order of Engineers, the Academy of Engineering and the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE). He was an Associate Member integrated in the Superior Council of Public Works and Transport. He is also a guest speaker at national and international congresses and seminars. He has about 70 articles on bridges published in Portugal and abroad, including works published in international magazines, such as Construction des ponts sur le Rio Guadania et le Rio Arade au Portugal in 1993 with Fuzier and Câncio Martins, Le pont Vasco de Gama sur le Tage in 1998 with Vassord, Ello, Muller and Gausset, and Le pont sur l'Arade à Portimão en Algarve in 1993. In the awards field, in 1997 the Association Française pour la Construction (AFPC) awarded him its Annual Prize, in 2014 he received the Freyssinet Medal, in 2015 he received the Albert Caquot Prize and, finally, in 2009 the Associação Portuguesa para a Segurança e Conservação de Pontes (ASCP) awarded him its Gold Medal. Regarding the works in which he intervened, the I Ibero-American Biennial of Engineering and Architecture in 1998, awarded the Miguel Torga Bridge, in Régua, the 1st Engineering Prize and the II, in 2000, awarded the Vasco da Gama Bridge the 1st Engineering Award. In 2019 he was graced as a great officer of the Order of Infante D. Henrique. Bibliography Curriculum de Armando António Marques Rito (2010). Encontro Nacional sobre Conservação e Reabilitação de Estruturas, [online]. Available at: http://reabilitar2010.lnec.pt/pdf/CVRITOresum.pdf [Accesssed 07 Oct. 2019] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Armando Rito Profile Subject The topic of the resource Individual Actors, Technician, Civil Engineer, Armando Rito Description An account of the resource Armando Rito Profile Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PT BUILDS Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available PT BUILDS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-10-07 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource PT BUILDS Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource TEXT Language A language of the resource ENG Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context IA38DOC1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1936-present, Portugal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) Item under construction - more information soon